Open shotgun panel on new file (nuke)

Louise · September 20, 2022, 3:01pm

Hello,

I’m trying to Open the shotgun panel with current entity context and show the “Notes” tab when creating a new file in nuke.
so, I’ve added the following code in hooks/tk-multi-workfiles2/scene_operation_tk-nuke.py
when parent_action == "new_file" and operation == "prepare_new"

panel_app = engine.apps["tk-multi-shotgunpanel"]
# Open the Shotgrid panel on current entity as dialog
panel_app.navigate(
    context.entity["type"],
    context.entity["id"],
    panel_app.DIALOG
 )
# Select notes tab
tab_index = panel_app._current_dialog.ENTITY_TABS.index(
    panel_app._current_dialog.ENTITY_TAB_NOTES
)
panel_app._current_dialog.ui.entity_tab_widget.setCurrentIndex(tab_index)

But the shotgun panel takes quite a while to refresh when launched from the shotgrid browser/file manager (more that it takes when launched without the shotgrid browser with the same code) and also I’ve some random crashes when I change the tab index.

I’ve tested with the latest versions of the shotgun panel and framework widgets.

Do you have any ideas to fix my issues ?

Thank you,

Louise

Louise · September 23, 2022, 6:26pm

Hello,

So, I made some progress.

For the “panel takes quite a while to refresh”, it’s just in one of our project, it’s fast in other projects, so another thing to debug…
For the crashes, I managed to find the source, it was when applying stylesheet on the widget creation, not the first time but the times after.

And it seems that I’m not the only one who experienced these crashes in Nuke >= 12
there is some code to apply the stylesheet in defer mode in tk-nuke when created as a nuke panel

github.com

shotgunsoftware/tk-nuke/blob/master/python/tk_nuke_qt/panels.py#L222


      
          # and also parent it to this widget
          self.toolkit_widget = PanelClass(*args, **kwargs)
          
          
# give our main widget a name so that we can identify it later
          self.toolkit_widget.setObjectName(widget_name)
          
          
bundle.logger.debug(
              "Created new toolkit panel widget %s", self.toolkit_widget
          )
          
          
# now let the core apply any external stylesheets
          #
          # NOTE: To be honest, we're not entirely sure why this is required. In Nuke 12
          # we started experiencing a crash when the shotgunpanel app was being launched
          # in panel mode. On OSX that was cured with a tiny tweak to the qss itself, but
          # the problem persisted on Windows and Linux. In those cases, it does not appear
          # that anything in the qss itself was the problem, it was simply that there was
          # qss being applied AT ALL right here.
          #
          # The solution here is to defer the application of the stylesheet by 1ms, which
          # gives Qt time process other events before getting to this call. With that in

I investigated a little more to find that it would come from the ActivitySreamWidget from tk-framework-qtwidgets.

If I add a self.setStyleSheet(“”) as first line in in destroy() and _clear() methods, I don’t have crashes anymore.